HOPKINTON — The Seacoast Titans extended perfection Sunday afternoon with a 35-0 victory on the road in Hopkinton against the Redhawks in New Hampshire Independent High school Football League action.

Both offenses struggled to start, but the Titans managed to catch fire. Operating mostly from the spread, the Titans quarterback Kyle Stevens orchestrated a scoring drive – a 31-yard touchdown pass to receiver Matt Marcotte on their second drive of the day.

Stevens completed 11 of 20 passes for 274 yards and four touchdowns. The Titans scored 21 points in the first half thanks to great connections from Stevens to his receivers — Marcotte, Marcus Villafane (4 catches,172 yards, 3 TDs), and Brenden McKenna.

Midway through the second-half, the most impressive play of the Titans season occurred. On a punt attempt by Hopkinton, Titans DJ Lovely burst through the blocking and seemed to catch the punt, plucking it clean off the punter’s foot. Lovely ran for the 35-yard touchdown.

The defense, which has been the story of the season for the Titans, performed well. Titans coach Mike Downing said, “In past years we were big; used to controlling the trenches. This year we’re younger and faster – we play with finesse.”

The Titans lived up to Downing’s words as they were in the backfield on nearly every play, garnering 13 sacks, led by Lovely (five), Liam Taylor (two), and Ryan McGovern (two).

The Titans next game is a non-conference game tonight against Canada.

Submitted by Sam Fortier.

Portsmouth boys move to 7-1-1

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Middle School boys varsity soccer improved its record to 7-1-1 with back-to-back victories over Portsmouth Christian Academy, 8-4, and Rye Middle School, 8-1, redeeming a earlier season tie.

Parker Rice, Max Martin and Oliver Allen providing a strong offense, with goaltender Jack Stevens providing a strong defense. Portsmouth will end the season with games against Dover today in Dover and Monday home at Portsmouth High School.

Portsmouth girls edge Rye

RYE — The Portsmouth Middle School girls soccer team beat Rye Thursday, 3-2, and is now 6-4 on the season.

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School freshman beat the Kingswood reserve team on Oct. 3 at PHS, 46-12.

The defense was led by DT Parker Griggs, DE Reid Eckhart LBs Ben Barba and Oscar Kozakowski (game captain).

On offense the offensive line, led by center and game captain Alex Gladu, blocked well and helped ball carriers all game. Quarterback Shon Parham had three passing TDs (Christian Peete, Beau Arsenault, and Jake Teti) and one rushing score. The other QB, Carter Snow, had a passing TD (Peete) and a kick return for a TD. WR Joe Glynn led the team in receptions and had a TD called back on a holding call. Five different players scored the seven touchdowns. Peete has scored 12 touchdowns in the team’s three games.

Portsmouth defeated Marshwood 41-6 and Laconia 35-0 last month and hold a 3-0 record on the season.

Men’s ice hockey: Towle Pallet rolls to win

ROCHESTER — Towle Pallet jumped out early on Merrimack Mortgage and rolled from there to a 10-6 win Monday in Rochester Men’s Hockey League action.

John Desmarais led Towle (2-0-0) with three goals and four assists, while Cody Chisholm added two goals and three assists. Also scoring a goal were Brady Wheeler (assist), Scott Brown and Jeff Nolin (assist). Dan Trepanier made 33 saves.

For MM (0-2-0), Brian Wilkinson had two goals, while John Zoeller and Tom Tabb added a goal and an assist each. AJ Lane and Doug Colwell also scored. Chuck Valenza stopped 34 shots.

British Beer Company pulled away from Finishing Touches in the third period, 7-2, to improve to 2-0-0.

For BBC, Brian Donovan Sr. had two goals and one assist, while Jeremy Hersey added a goal and two assists. Also scoring were Chris Bolton (assist), Ray Carroll, Roy Chamberlain and Bill Hopkins (assist). Keith MacKenzie stopped 25 shots.

BBC led 2-1 after the first period and 3-1 after two stops before pulling away.